Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-11
PERSONAL.

WHEN the Prince of Naples visited Leghorn
recently he took pains to call on Manlio Carl
bsldi. who is pupil in the Naval Academy
there.
ANOTHER EFFORT is to be made by Bostoni-
ans to get through Congress a bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for the monument to Joseph
Warren, which was ordered to be erected by
Congress many years ago.
THOMAS TIFFANY, OF San Francisco. used
to wear as scarf pin one of his lady loves
false teeth elegantly mounted in gold. After
this it will not be surprising to learn that Mr.,
Tlfany's will il contested.
SARAH BERNHARDT, whose purse is always
as slim as her form, has received from her
numerous engagements since May last nearly
1880 900 francs. What became OF her money
she is unable to tell herself.
AS a result of his recent speech in favor of
woman suffrage. Senator Sabn receives a
score or more letters every day from strong
minded wives and aged single ladies with
proverbial cork-screw curls.
AGNES BOOTH. ill from a severe cold that
threatened pneumonia. tainted on the stage
of the Madison Square Theatre Saturday
night, but pluckily went on with the play af-
ter being drenched with water.
NINE. MoDJEsKA SAYS she will not return to
Poland TO live because she can do nothing
there, Russian tyranny is so great She
wants to live where she can take an active IN
terest in whatever Is going on about her.
GAsFABD PACAUD. aged 81, is me mber OF
tho Canadian Parliament, with every PROS
pect of attaining prominence in that body.
Two years ago he was clerk in Detroit
dry goods store on salary of so per week.
JOHN p ST. JOHN Is lecturing in the East
on 1.-THE Great Question of the Age.n but he
fails to tell how much ne received Tor his can
vass in 1854 as an assistant Democrat, which
Is the only question concerning him in which
the people are Interested.
GEN. CAssIUs M. CLAY has publicly an
nounced himself a candidate for the Ne
publican nomination for Governor OF Ken
lucky, and claims for himself the distinction
Of being the only farmer candidate in his
party. All the others are lawyers.
THE Regent Of Bavaria is making his sons
learn useful trades. Prince Rupert, who will
probably be King some day, i apprenticcd to
a Munich wood turner, and works daily AZ
his bench. Prince Francis ia learning TO paint
houses, and Prince Charles Is an industrious
market gardener.
GEORGE BANCROFT has a German BODY
servant who has been with him since he was
at Berlin. The servant wakes the historian
precisely at o'clock every morning and pre-
pares his clothes for him to put on, and an
hour later brings him his break asst, OF which
the principal feature is fine wheat bread.
DIR. MILLER, who was sent on diplomatic
mission to Mexico. has already made some
pulque Is pronounced "poolke," and that ID
is Il white, milkyish fluid that ia already pre-
pared from natures own dlsullery. It Is
consumed by all the people In prodigious
quantities, being capable of exciting. II not
intoxicating, those who drink IL in large
Quantities.
Young MIR. Fair, son OF Senator Fair, of
Nevada, can boast of the most expeusiye
drunk on record when he tried TO shoot ex-
Representative Page, OF California, because
the latter refused TO take drink with him.
Young Fair had been promised u cool 81. O0O,-
coo II he would 40 Tor year without drink
ing, and had scored up seven months of the
allotted time. out the temptation TO 20 on u
tear that would cost u round million was too
glittering for his little mind, aud he fell.
MR. GLADSTONE, In his article on Locks
ley Hall aud the Jubilee" referred to the an
Gent custom OF the government OF opening
private letters at the post ONCE whenever 1t
saw 1t ''rhis bad practice" he wrote, ''has
died out" II is pity he did not add that he
himself had been the last Minister TO indulge
IN the "bad practice" which he did, in spite
Of Postmaster General Fawcetts earnest op .
position, as lately as February, 1881. He at
that time opened and read all the letters that
passed through the post Office for and from
three Of the chief Irish leaders in Z aTliament.